Alan: 6649 books

Al Qaeda knew before the 9/11 bombings that their mission to destroy Western capitalist culture would become extremely difficult if they continued to use the same methods as those deployed on the World Trade Centre, Spanish Trains and the London Underground. Their decisions would have a profound effect...

The Moving Skeletons is a short story by Alan Chains rich in dark humor.

For the first time in 850 years, the centre of gravity of the world church has moved from Europe to the Majority World, centred in Africa. What might God be saying by doing this? Are Western people able to learn from Black, Asian and Latin American women and men about God, the Bible and life? Sharp...

Bruno’s father has dementia and neither the unusually hot Scottish summer nor even Justin’s habitual strip-teasing can take his mind off the slow ebbtide of Alzheimer’s. Justin’s suggestion of going to a Psychic Fayre leads to Bruno overhearing a tarot card reading, with cards on the table...

In the spring of 2011 it was suggested to me that with the thousands of photos which had been taken by my artist wife, Laura Gurton, during our many trips to Italy, that I produce a program in my hometown on Woodstock Public Access Television. Having been to Italy twenty times in an equal number of...

After Bruno suffers a long-expected family bereavement, Justin and Imogen get him a fun present: a mystery weekend at Corpington Manor at Old Yule. All’s fun (although very weird) until they lose a night, are imprisoned in a freezing cellar and escape back home where Clara tells them to get some...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). This 2017 live action film was inspired by the 1991 Disney animated classic and its successful score penned by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Its soundtrack features songs from the original film as well as new material written by Menken and Alan Rice. Our piano/vocal/guitar...

‘An Alphabet of Poetry Forms’ is Alan Peat’s third collection of poetry for children. Each of the poetic forms in the book is accompanied by an invaluable ‘Teachers’ notes’ section.   Clearly, poetry is not just an exercise in form but the word play inherent in each...

Always a Rolling Stone is a true story written with all the earthy excitement and suspense of work of fiction. Encompassing an extraordinary life of bittersweet memories, heartache, hardship and triumph the story provides incites into an austere, violent childhood spent in the working class suburbs of...

In a post-apocalypse world where everyone over eighteen has become a zombie, seventeen-year-old Alex Stevens and his friends fight their way across England to save Alex’s kid sister from certain death. But the dead are not the only threat they face in a world plunged into chaos…

Niveau A1 1. Lernjahr / 5. Klasse 300 Wörter Friendship / Mystery Ellen, 15, schreibt tolle Songs und spielt wunderbar Gitarre. Das findet zumindest ihre Freundin Holly. Doch beim Vorsingen für einen Fernsehwettbewerb gehen Ellen die Nerven durch. Holly dagegen kommt ins Finale - mit einem Lied...

First published as part of the multi-author novella collection “Creeping Shadows” in 2009 and reprinted in Alan Draven's 2012 collection "Spooky Showcase", now a stand-alone novella: "Vengeance Is Mine." Alan Draven’s classic re-telling of the Jack the Ripper murders—with...

A freewheeling essay on mortality and freedom at the intersection of ancient philosophy and biker culture After my accident, I thought I was done with bikes. Until a few years ago—I was lying in bed having trouble sleeping when I heard a voice say to me, “Alan, get a Harley and ride to...

When Alan Emmins met a homeless French girl dancing on a makeshift dance floor in the Freedom Tunnel, she challenged him to try homelessness himself to better understand what he was writing about. He took up the challenge.   Alan spent 31 days living homeless in New York to capture portraits...